All episodes of Linguistics Lectures - Chartable

Linguistics Lectures

Episodes

A Basic Introduction to Chomsky's Linguistics

Presentations given on February 2, 2012.

Published 02/23/12

What is Special About Language?

Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist lectured at the University of Arizona on Feb. 7, 2012, on "What is Special About Language?" Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked for more than 50 years. Chomsky, who according to The New York Times is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” is credited with revolutionizing...

Published 02/16/12

Steps towards the physics of language

February 10, 2012

Published 02/15/12

Which Comes First, the Stop or the Spirant? A Quasi-Longitudinal Study of Bilingual Children

February 3, 2012

Published 02/15/12

Syntactic (in)variation in young children’s comprehension of A-movement

January 27, 2012

Published 01/30/12

Twin Reflexives

January 20, 2012

Published 01/27/12

The role of language in structure dependent thought

January 13, 2012

Published 01/27/12

The diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives: Feature economy meets Old Norse

Published 11/18/11

De Re and De Se: Linguistic and Conceptual Parameters

November 4, 2011

Published 11/09/11

Al-Sayyid: A language blooms in the desert.

Published 10/30/11

Types of information in ambiguous casual speech: 'He was like' or 'He's like'?

Published 10/30/11

A Movement Theory of Pronominal Binding

Published 10/26/11

Spell-Out, Movement, and the Copy Theory

Published 10/14/11

Regularity as a continuum: Why 'irregular' doesn't have to be the opposite of 'regular'

Published 10/07/11

Brain Optimization and Biological Satisficing

Published 09/29/11

Leibniz's Problem, Frege's Puzzle

Published 09/24/11

Morphological Conspirators: morpho-syntax and the apparent event-structure differences across forms of nominalization

Published 09/10/11

On the generative capacity of natural languages: human and non-human

Published 08/26/11

Where do linguistic universals come from?

Published 04/24/11

Generalized Contiguity

Published 04/23/11

Some Effects of Dialect Variation on Lexical Processing

Published 04/08/11

The anatomy of the language network: Insights from neurodegenerative aphasias

Published 04/02/11

The relation between codas and onset clusters

Published 03/08/11

Tracking Tip-of-the-Tongue States in a Multilingual Speaker: Evidence of Attrition or Instability in Lexical Systems?

Published 02/25/11

Exploring ERP Effects of Metaphor via Crowdsourcing

Published 01/14/11